Comets

4072 TRACKED

Ice and dust on long orbits, growing a tail only when the Sun gets close enough to boil them.

RANKED LISTS

167P/CINEOS — 33.09 km

ALL CLASSES PARABOLIC COMET · 1763 JUPITER-FAMILY COMET · 846 COMET · 731 HYPERBOLIC COMET · 520 HALLEY-TYPE COMET · 111 ENCKE-TYPE COMET · 79 CHIRON-TYPE COMET · 22

P/2000 R2 (LINEAR)

Jupiter-family comet

3.338 AU · Sun

P/2001 H5 (NEAT)

Jupiter-family comet

5.994 AU · Sun

P/2002 EJ57 (LINEAR)

Jupiter-family comet

P/2002 P2 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.005 AU · Sun

P/2002 S7 (SOHO)

Jupiter-family comet

3.224 AU · Sun

P/2003 F2 (NEAT)

Jupiter-family comet

6.504 AU · Sun

P/2003 T12 (SOHO)

Jupiter-family comet

2.568 AU · Sun

P/2004 FY140 (LINEAR)

Jupiter-family comet

4.952 AU · Sun

P/2004 R3 (LINEAR-NEAT)

Jupiter-family comet

3.837 AU · Sun

P/2004 V5-A (LINEAR-Hill)

Jupiter-family comet

P/2004 V5-B (LINEAR-Hill)

Jupiter-family comet

7.951 AU · Sun

P/2005 E1 (Tubbiolo)

Jupiter-family comet

7.225 AU · Sun

P/2005 L1 (McNaught)

Encke-type comet

3.974 AU · Sun

P/2005 S2 (Skiff)

Chiron-type comet

7.965 AU · Sun

P/2005 T3 (Read)

Chiron-type comet

7.507 AU · Sun

P/2005 T4 (SWAN)

Halley-type comet

9.324 AU · Sun

P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring)

Halley-type comet

7.818 AU · Sun

P/2007 K2 (Gibbs)

Jupiter-family comet

7.203 AU · Sun

P/2007 Q2 (Gilmore)

Jupiter-family comet

5.594 AU · Sun

P/2007 S1 (Zhao)

Jupiter-family comet

3.799 AU · Sun